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Using Sweep: Fun with Scrubby

This is an introductory tutorial about using Sweep for editing and
experimenting with digital audio. You will find out how to make your
Linux box make sounds that you have never heard before, and you might
also learn something useful about editing audio files.

Although Sweep is quite powerful, it is an easy to use desktop application
and its interface contains none of the esoteric "weird shit" common in
audio software.

Sweep harbours a pesky little virtual stylus tool called "Scrubby" who
will invade your mind and make you want to remix your entire CD collection
in one day.

In this tutorial you will learn:

basic audio editing

how to use many free LADSPA effects plugins including
compression, delays, distortion and filters

immersive loop mode recording

beatmixing and scrubbing technique

how to play with digital sampling

WARNING: after attending this tutorial, you may never use your Linux box
quite the same way again!